Perhaps the only way to write about climate injustice as overwhelming as Houston’s ongoing flood-pocalypse is to ... issues are inextricably tied. The book’s Memory section includes poems ...

Two months after Hurricane Harvey, the city of Houston spent $10.7 million to get nearly 60 damaged houses out of the flood plain ... which were on the books before Harvey. They require that ...

Here is a map of Houston’s flood zones as defined by FEMA. It shows the areas that have a 1-in-500 chance of flooding, and a 1-in-100 chance of flooding. (FEMA uses various scales for 100-year ...

He’d been evacuated Tuesday after feet of water from the Harvey-fueled San Jacinto River washed through his home in the tony northeast Houston community ... a still life of books on a table ...

but recent severe weather events in the region have shown that even these zones are not completely safe from flooding. In Houston, assessing a property’s flood risk means looking beyond the obvious.

After Hurricane Harvey, the "for sale" signs in people's yards didn't tout the pool or the school districts. The biggest selling-point was in bold, capital letters: DID NOT FLOOD. Potential home ...

In 2001, Tropical Storm Allison hit Houston ... Book" by Barbara A. Shailor. Carver included a note that read: Dear Sarah, I have often thought of you and your family, and that terrible flood ...

While most of the high-water rescues across Houston were inside flood zones, data show more than 80 percent of the 943 calls for help in East Houston were outside of the flood plain But calls ...

And Houston’s flood is truly a disaster of biblical ... Developers working in flood zones might not care what happens after they sell a property. That’s where governmental oversight is ...

HOUSTON (KTRK ... One homeowner says his flood insurance went up about $100 this year. The price of getting flood insurance if you do not live in a flood zone is about $400 a year.